The trees were coming out in the back garden; there were little leaves — little ear-shaped leaves on the bushes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Years] Reference

On each side of this mouth there will be found in the fly a pair of ear-shaped flaps or lobes, and these play a very important part.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

The retractable cat ear-shaped spoilers that can protrude from the roof are expected to help slow the train more quickly than conventional brakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [World’s Fastest Train | Impact Lab] Reference

But when it came time to cut the dumplings off into signature squares, something possessed me to try smushing them into the ear-shaped pasta orecchiette instead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homemade Orecchiette (or something almost resembling it) with Broccoli Rabe & Lemon Butter] Reference

The pre-theater menu runs throughout dinner on Sunday and includes one of my favorite dishes as an option: ear-shaped pasta with diced acorn squash, walnuts and a light, sage-scented butter sauce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Sietsema on Equinox and 701: New chapters for two downtown mainstays] Reference

The saltwater univalve with the ear-shaped shell, iridescent inside, contains a rock-clinging creature which, when pounded thin and tender, like a scaloppine, holds pride of place at Chinese banquets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abalone delicious] Reference

No. 4 resembles an owl's beak, and especially as this is seen between the ear-shaped ornaments, it was doubtless intended to represent the image of the owl with upraised wings on each side of the vases, which image received a noble appearance from the splendid lid with a coronet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

The Cashmere pattern also essentially consists of a leaf with its apex laterally expanded; it closes an ear-shaped flower-stem, set with small florets, which in exceptional cases protrude beyond the outline of the leaf; the whole is treated rigorously as an absolute flat ornament, and hence its recognition is rendered somewhat more difficult.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884] Reference

And the question of his own humanity hangs over the entire show like one of the ear-shaped screens of this production.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

It conveys us to 'old Dali '- a small grid like town positioned between Erhai (ear-shaped) lake and the Cangshan mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference

And when the magic was all over we headed back to the city in a Mickey Mouse train - a proper train, that is, with mouse ear-shaped windows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

The upper half presents in front an ear-shaped surface, the auricular surface, covered with cartilage in the fresh state, for articulation with the ilium.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 3a. 4. The Sacral and Coccygeal Vertebræ] Reference

In 2006, as shown in the gallery video, surgeons in Los Angeles installed a porous polyethylene ear-shaped prosthesis in his forearm and then snugged his skin down over it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

Despite all the hoo-ha and cloak and dagger nature of the Zumba, we're still struggling to work out how it's much better than an effective Bluetooth headset that stores data remotely, and why the bizarre, flat, ear-shaped design of the earpiece?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gizmodo] Reference

Bavant Long Barrow -- produced by that old squat Finnlike race which preceded the 'Ancient Britons' of our old-fashioned school-books -- has two ear-shaped handles projecting just below the rim, exactly as in the modern form of vessel known as a crock, and still familiarly used for household purposes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference

Pertaining to, like or composed of gold. adj. - having golden hair; making hair golden. adj. - having ears or ear-shaped outgrowths; lobed; ear-like. adj. producing gold. aurification, n. working with gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference

4 cups hot cooked orecchiette about 8 ounces uncooked small ear-shaped pasta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sweetnicks- Food & Life - It's All at Sweetnicks] Reference

An ear-shaped lobe at the base.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference

1/3 pound orecchiette (ear-shaped pasta) or farfalle (bow-tie pasta) 2 tablespoons olive oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epicurious.com: New Recipes] Reference

1 pound orecchiette (ear-shaped pasta).    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

Bases acuminate: coming to a sharp, narrow, prolonged point. acute: coming to a sharp, but not prolonged point. auriculate: ear-shaped cordate: heart-shaped with the norch away from the stem. cuneate: wedge-shaped. hastate: shaped like an halberd and with the basal lobes pointing outward. oblique: slanting. reniform: kidney-shaped but rounder and broader than long. rounded: curving shape. sagittate: shaped like an arrowhead and with the acute basal lobes pointing downward. truncate: ending abruptly with a flat end, that looks cut off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wikibooks - Recent changes [en]] Reference